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A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in…A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in…
A survey of the spiritual antichrist opening the secrets of familism and antinomianism in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...A survey of the spirituall antichrist opening the secrets of familisme and antinomianisme in the antichristian doctrine of John Saltmarsh and Will. Del, the present preachers of the army now in England, and of Robert Town, by Samuel Rutherfurd ...
London: printed by J.D. & R.I. for Andrew Crooke, 1648
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Saltmarsh 307.308. expoundeth the place, Zach. 13. more spiritually By the false Prophet is meant the Spirit of Antichrist, by the father and mother that begat him, they who made him a Prophet or cried him up, and their thrusting of him through for lies, is the spiritual smiting of the Antichristian working with the sword of the Spirit, through some new enlightenings from God.
Saltmarsh 307.308. exponeth the place, Zach. 13. more spiritually By the false Prophet is ment the Spirit of Antichrist, by the father and mother that begat him, they who made him a Prophet or cryed him up, and their thrusting of him through for lyes, is the spirituall smiting of the Antichristian working with the sword of the Spirit, through some new enlightnings from God.
Ans. Such lying wresting of Scripture from the literal and native sense of the Spirit is the way with Origen to turn all Scripture into allegories, and types; for read the words, and they are a Prophetical threatening of death to the false teacher by his nearest blood-friends, alluding to Deut. 13. where father and mother were to cast stones at those, dearest to them, if they should prophesy lies, and this is to be fulfilled under the Messiah's opened fountain of his blood, v. 1, 2, 3. I will cause the Prophet to cease, his father shall threaten him. Thou shalt not live, he shall be ashamed, and shall not dare to profess himself a false Prophet, but a herdsman, and he shall have visible wounds; these are the wounds I received in the house of my friends.
Ans. Such lying wresting of Scripture from the literall and native sense of the Spirit is the way with Origen to turn all Scripture into allegories, and types; for read the words, and they are a Propheticall threatning of death to the false teacher by his nearest bloud-friends, alluding to